The Chicago-based show's host, Peter Sagal, introduces the show with a lead-in to the appearance of today's special guest...
"Other cities may have the financial titans or the movie stars or those mountains and oceans we've heard are somewhat impressive to look at, but we have got something better. We've got a guy who will fly to your city wherever you are and indict your sorry behind."
Like Ted Koppel's appearance on that radio show, Fitzgerald surprises me by having a great sense of humor.
If you listen to today's entire show, you'll learn lots of interesting things that happened this week and weren't blogged on YWA, including the arrest of 14 squirrels in Iran.
"Fourteen squirrels were arrested in Iran on charges of espionage....The squirrels were carrying spy gear of foreign agencies and were stopped before they could attack thanks to the alertness of [the Iranian] intelligence services. Soon after, Dick Cheney turned to the president and said, 'Okay. We tried your idea. Now let me get back to work.'"
In the special guest interview segment titled "We are so not going to ask you about Scooter Libby!", Fitzgerald correctly answers a question about the Segway scooter, noting the Pentagon's attempts to turn it into a robotic soldier.
Hey, it fought the President, and won.
Along with squirrel spies, we can add the Segway Warrior to a list of Bush plans to defeat the enemy in the Middle East.
Hey, if you think you have better ideas, pass them along.
....awww, do what you want....you will anyway.
P.S. Show panelist Roy Blount, Jr., suggests the next fantasy series after Harry Potter will be
"The Adventures of Li'l Scooter" whose dark boss, Li'l Dick, sends him out on terrible quests and he gets into the darnedest fixes, and fortunately, his magic friend, Li'l George, comes along and saves him every time."
Update: Ashcroft's deputy, James Comey, nominates Fitzgerald to replace Gonzales. Of course, that would be in fantasy land, not our current cartoon land. I'm still of mixed feelings about how Fitzgerald got the job of special prosecutor in the Plame case in the first place. Something in the back of my mind says they knew he'd have the aura of impartiality and doggedness while at the same time not actually nailing anybody beyond the scapegoat Libby, who had a nice deal to get his sentence commuted. Rove still gets off. Cheney still gets off. Bush still gets off.
I'm not saying Fitz was in on the deal. I don't have a Chertoff one way or the other about that. I just don't know how much danger there ever was in his being a threat to the criminal operations in the White House. Not much, I suspect.
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